When I was small, I used to think the words to the Fine Young Cannibals (who I called the Fine Young Cannonballs) song "She Drives Me Crazy" were "She drives me crazy/Like long white hair" (instead of "Like no-one else").

Also, in The National's "Racing Like a Pro", my boyfriend and I always hear "Your mind is racing like a pronoun" instead of "like a pro now". Maybe because we're both trans and involved in gender activism stuff....

_________________If I chew on garlic that's been in a vagina, isn't that exploiting SOMEONE? - coldandsleepyAfter all, you can't spell Richard Dawkins without "dickwad". - EmperorTomatoKetchup

Also, in The National's "Racing Like a Pro", my boyfriend and I always hear "Your mind is racing like a pronoun" instead of "like a pro now". Maybe because we're both trans and involved in gender activism stuff....

LOVE IT!!

_________________Man, fork the gender card, imma come at you with the whole damned gender deck. - Olives Did you ever think that, like, YOU are a sexy costume FOR a diva cup? - solipsistnationblog!FB!

Oh, and a recent and embarrassing one - in The Mountain Goats' song Sept. 15, 1983, I totally used to think it went "If I forget Israel/Let me forget Iran", and he was just pronouncing it weirdly. (The actual lyrics are "If I forget Israel/Let me forget my right hand").

_________________If I chew on garlic that's been in a vagina, isn't that exploiting SOMEONE? - coldandsleepyAfter all, you can't spell Richard Dawkins without "dickwad". - EmperorTomatoKetchup

I'm so bad with mishearing lyrics! These are ones that I only found out were wrong within the last few years:

"Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson, she's a slut, oooh more than you can know"

"Wastin' away again in Margaritaville, searchin' for my lost chigger and saw"(I knew chiggers were little bitey bugs, and I didn't know why anyone would search for one!)

"Look around, leaves are brown, and the sky is a hazy shade of winter, in your Salvation Army bag..."and later in the same song:"Look around, leaves are brown, there's a black joke store on the ground."I spent YEARS thinking that "black joke store" must have some deep meaning that I couldn't figure out.

There's a song called "All My Life" by Nizlopi...I've been listening to the Ed Sheeran cover a lot, and I realized, '"wait, that lyric couldn't possibly be 'I drink Evian from your lips, darling, Evian from your pants', could it?"

Looked it up. Sure enough. Evian from your pants. No Mondegreening.

_________________Man, fork the gender card, imma come at you with the whole damned gender deck. - Olives Did you ever think that, like, YOU are a sexy costume FOR a diva cup? - solipsistnationblog!FB!

The radio station at my work plays all kinds of old-timey songs. The other day, I heard "Praise the Lard and pass the ammunition" as "Pray for love and happy happy knickers". Obviously, my version is way better.

The radio station at my work plays all kinds of old-timey songs. The other day, I heard "Praise the Lard and pass the ammunition" as "Pray for love and happy happy knickers". Obviously, my version is way better.

Oh, my god - that is hilarious (and yes, much better)!

When I was little, I thought the opening words of Mystery Train ("Train I ride...") were "ham on rye." My older sister heard me singing once and took the mickey out of me for ages.